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In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.


Louis Finkelstein


#almost #anticipated #century #different #different schools

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.


Barney Frank


#american #american history #because #could #encouragement

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.


Henry Louis Gates


#examples #footnotes #generalize #historian #historians

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.


Peter Gay


#ever #every #historian #using #without

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.


Donald Kagan


#explaining #had #historians #history #own

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?


Donald Kagan


#always #anybody #ask #because #different

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.


Horace Walpole


#circumstances #exalt #historians #how #improve

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.


Paul de Man


#agent #both #degree #his #historian

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.


Robert Plant


#find #historian #i #i can #pretty

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.


Aly Khan


#burdens #force #fortunately #historians #historic






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